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Learn valuable professional skills in Washington, D.C. with classes on leadership, project management, and communication to enhance your career prospects and boost your confidence in the workplace.
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Storytelling Hacks for Networking + Interviews
General Assembly @ 1133 15th St NW, Washington, DC
Tell me about Yourself: Storytelling Hacks for Networking + Interviews Tell me about yourself: the four words that strike fear in any career-related conversation. And we all know the best way to make a point or inspire action in the workplace is by telling a compelling story. And as it relates to work, we'll often see that struggling to describe who we are and what they do leads to missed opportunities for advancement. So we're bringing together...
Body Butters, Lip Balms and Shea Whips
Nyah @ 203 Ridgely Ave, Annapolis, MD
We are all familiar with them; cocoa, shea and mango. In this session you will learn how to make body butters; whipped and in solid forms. We will explore how to prepare them and the different options for presentation. During this class you will make preservative free and non-water based body moisturizers. Using rich butters and oils such as shea, cocoa and coconut these body moisturizers will renew even the driest of skin. Each participant...
$129
Introduction to Inclusive Design
General Assembly @ 509 7th St NW, Washington, DC
The keyboard that you type on, Siri, email, audio books, captions on Facebook videos, remote controls – these were all originally designed for people with disabilities, yet they significantly changed everyone's world. Often, as designers we get so caught up in accessible legal standards and the WCAG that we don’t realize just how powerful designing for disability can be – if done right. Why does designing for disability work? As humans, we...
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Online Storytelling for Non-Profits & Social Enterprise
General Assembly @ 509 7th St NW, Washington, DC
Developing a strong digital marketing strategy can make a world of difference for organizations that operate with limited budgets to achieve their membership and funding goals. This workshop will offer a big picture analysis of compelling and cost-effective digital marketing and storytelling, with an emphasis on working with limited resources and staying true to your organization's mission and purpose. Join us as we explore what it takes to craft...
Adobe After Effects: An Introduction & Practice Session
General Assembly @ GA Washington D.C. (Remote Online), Washington, DC
Interested in animating a logo? Need to mock up a UI animation for a client? Curious about how to make text move over video footage? These are just a few things you can do with Adobe After Effects! In this workshop, you'll learn about the possibilities available when animating with After Effects, as well as the program’s general layout and basic functions. We'll spend the majority of the workshop practicing the tools and techniques with a supplied...
Refine Your Public Speaking & Presentation Skills
The well-being of our employees, students, clients, instructors, and guests is our number one priority here at General Assembly. We are monitoring the COVID-19 situation very carefully and are adjusting delivery of our programs. Registered students will be notified 24 hours in advance of this program with information on how to log in to the Zoom Meeting Room and other tools you’ll need for the session. Registration for this class will close 2...
Body Language for Virtual Meetings & Interviews
In this sudden switch to all things virtual, how do you maintain great soft skills and continue to express executive presence? Research shows 85% of job success comes from having well-developed soft and people skills. Employers want great communication from team players who are compassionate, empathetic, sensitive, and able to create a safe psychological space. How do we do this through the computer when most of these soft skills are non-verbal...
Visual Design 101
General Assembly @ 509 7th St NW, Washington, DC
The well-being of our employees, students, clients, instructors, and guests is our number one priority here at General Assembly. We are monitoring the COVID-19 situation very carefully and are adjusting delivery of our programs. Due to the current health concerns, all GA short-form events, workshops & bootcamps will temporarily be held online - including this one. Registered students will be notified 24 hours in advance of this program with...
Get Financially Savvy: How to Manage Your Money in 2020
This workshop will be hosted online (Livestream) due to safety considerations, please check out the "Preparation" section on the bottom of this page. Registered participants will be notified in advance of this program with information on how to log in to the workshop. There is little to no financial education or information around money in our education system. It isn’t until we start earning we ask questions such as: What is money? How to save?...
Salary Negotiation
Does the idea of negotiating for money make you cringe? Do you have trouble figuring out what your worth is in the job market and how to command that in your existing/desired role? Are you lost on where to start when preparing for a negotiation conversation? If you answer yes to one of these questions, then this workshop is for you! In this experiential and interactive workshop, you'll learn 3 keys to identifying how to prepare for a salary negotiation...
Ethics by Design Series: Overview & Human Rights
When you design or engineer a product, you believe that it will have a positive impact on your target market. But do you have the resources to think about how your technologies might affect society as a whole? This evening workshop will introduce you to the basics of ethical thinking and will help you implement ethics in your working day. ***This is a standalone module in the Ethics by Design Series, which encourages you to think more deeply...
Content Strategy 101
General Assembly @ GA Washington D.C. (Remote Online), Washington, DC
There are zillions of sites and apps begging for your attention--but how many effectively communicate and easily display the information you're seeking? The ones that work likely had a content strategist leading the way. Digital content strategists work with editorial, user experience, strategy, copywriting and design teams to create content that reflects a company or publisher’s business goals. Learn the basics of content strategy in the context...
How to Be an Effective Manager
Due to the fast pace of change today, many employees get thrust into managerial positions and immediately face numerous new challenges and responsibilities with little training. Ensuring that valuable individual contributors can adapt quickly into effective managers is critical to the long-term viability of every organization and is a fast track for an individual to pursue a more fulfilling career. In this workshop, you’ll get an in-depth...
Email Marketing Essentials
General Assembly @ 509 7th St NW, Washington, DC
Email is one of the highest performing digital marketing channels, requiring its own unique set of content, marketing, and design considerations. However, with the tens of hundreds of emails people receive every day, you must learn how to distinguish your email from the rest. In this session, you’ll learn how to develop and drive email strategy, best practices and principles for getting users to take action, simple strategies and A/B tests...
Understanding the Stack: A Non-Programmer's Guide
General Assembly @ GA Washington D.C. (Remote Online), Washington, DC
Understanding the Stack: A Non-Programmer's Guide to Web and Mobile Programming This workshop will be hosted online (Livestream) due to safety considerations, please check out the "Preparation" section on the bottom of this page. Registered participants will be notified in advance of this program with information on how to log in to the workshop. Learn to talk the talk without walking the walk. This class is for people who want to speak intelligently...
Writing Short Humor Pieces
The Writer's Center @ 4508 Walsh St, Bethesda, MD
Have you always loved short humor pieces like you find in McSweeney's and The New Yorker's Shouts and Murmurs and want to give it a try? In this workshop, we'll focus on funny conceptual humor: from parody to imagined dialogues to Decorative Gourds. We'll look at great examples of humor pieces to see what made them work, discuss online and print outlets for humor and learn strategies for making pieces as strong as possible. We'll also discuss...
All levels
18 and older
Risk Management for Projects, Programs and Operations
Understanding risk management in project management is a key skill required of all project managers. In this project risk management training course, you learn how to identify, measure, and analyze risks in projects of all sizes and scopes, and how to ensure the success of your projects from beginning to end by quantifying and creating a project risk management plan. You Will Learn How To: Manage risk to deliver initiatives that meet stakeholder...
Intermediate
18 and older
InDesign CC Advanced
Learning Tree International @ 1110 Vermont Ave NW, Washington, DC
Adobe InDesign CC software speaks the language of professional designers, delivering unparalleled creative freedom, productivity, and precision for designing superb pages. It works seamlessly with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, providing a single integrated design environment that doesn't interrupt your creative process. This course provides a thorough overview of the interface, the tools, the features, and the production tips for page layout...
Advanced
18 and older
Creating Dashboards with SharePoint
Learning Tree International @ 75-25 Juniper Blvd S, New York, NY
Business Intelligence (BI) is the process of exposing enterprise data that enables management to make informed business decisions. In this training course, you gain the knowledge and skills to leverage built-in SharePoint BI capabilities, and build reporting dashboards in SharePoint Server — allowing your organization to implement and visualize enterprise data. You Will Learn How To: Present business insight from a variety of reports and data...
Intermediate
18 and older
PMP® Certification Training Course
In this PMP Certification Boot Camp, you gain a deep understanding of essential terminology and knowledge areas of the PMBOK® Guide to prepare you to pass the PMP certification exam. The Project Management Professional is the most in-demand project management certification today and one of our most popular project management courses. Choose the PMP certification training method that works best for you by selecting from on-demand, instructor-led,...
Advanced
18 and older
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